Long-Term Care

First national database to track long-term care quality

Contemporary Long-Term Care Weekly, November 29, 2007

The National Institute on Aging has awarded Brown University's Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research a five-year, $10 million grant to create the first national database to track the impact of state policies and market forces on the quality of long-term care. Vincent Mor, chairman of the Department of Community Health, is principal investigator.

Mor and his team will combine Medicare reimbursement data and patient hospitalization rates with other data collected from a random sample of 2,600 nursing homes nationwide on the health status of residents, reimbursement rates for services, and other topics, as well as information on relevant policies from all 50 states.

The goal is to allow researchers to trace a clear relationship among state policies, local market forces, and the quality of long-term care. Policy-makers can then use the information to craft state and local guidelines that promote high-quality, cost-effective, equitable care for older Americans.

 

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